.htaccess crashing my site if not blank

  • Resolved floorheatingexpress

    (@floorheatingexpress)


    9 years, 8 months ago

    Hi All,

    Hoping somebody can help me, been trying very hard to work out what the problem is but im a bit stumped!

    So my issues started when I tried installing W3 Total Cache. Which crashed my site.

    I checked .htaccess and it contained only the code relevant to W3TC, no standard wordpress stuff. SO I deleted it and the site started to work again.

    I then disabled W3TC, and attempted to force wordpress to regenerate the .htaccess file by changing the permalink structure. Yet to my astonishment this bombed the site out too showing only internal server error! Again, once I delete the .htaccess it starts to work again.

    Surely wordpresses own code regarding permalinks wouldnt crash the install.

    Here is what WP puts in there on changin the permalinks which kills the site.

    # BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

    Does anyone know what is happening with this?? Really could use a hand.

    Thanks guys!!

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  • Thread Starter floorheatingexpress

    (@floorheatingexpress)

    Fixed it guys nevermind!

    My friend who works in IT sorted it, said it was to do with some erver side Apache settings. Sorry I cant elaborate more for other people having problems but I wouldnt have understood it had he explained it to me anyway!

    One thing I will say is that its loads quicker even before I have configured anything on it so if you are trying to get it working keep going! its worth it.

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